Tangent Scale Models 25064-06 - Greenville 86′ Double Plug Door Box Car Norfolk & Western (NW) 52997 - HO Scale

• Product: Greenville 86′ Double Plug Door Box Car
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: Tangent 70-Ton trucks rotating “Hyatt” roller bearing caps
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 33″ Wheels
• Era: 1965-1985

– Norfolk & Western (N&W) “Delivery 1964 Brown” 1965+ Era replicates the N&W’s first order of 86-foot auto parts box cars in their attractive brown paint with “Hamburger” logo.  This order of forty cars was delivered in July 1964 and they were among the first Greenville 86’ Double-Door cars built.  While the cars were originally built with high ladders and running boards, these features were quickly changed on the prototype cars.  This Tangent model duplicates this 1965+ look.  The prototype’s running board was removed, but the bracket bolt remnants remained up on the roof.  The prototype end appliances were completely rebuilt:  The brake wheel was lowered, the high and low ladders were removed, replaced with “L” grab irons and full-width crossover platforms.  This Tangent model carefully replicates all these features with this 1965+ body, including the bolt remnants where all of that “high” equipment was attached.  This detail includes the body side, showing off the high grab iron remnants in the top-right corners.  This is an important group of details to get right, since these cars operated in this configuration for their entire 1965+ service lives.  The N&W hamburger graphics are carefully recreated on this car, from the large logo down to the small data in Greenville’s distinctive typestyle.  The return route is accurately stenciled for the Ford Stamping plant on the Wabash Railroad in Buffalo, New York.  Underneath. The model features an accurate Center-of-Car Cushioning underframe with truck-mounted brake hardware, “lowered” Miner hand brake, 1965 replacement full-width Apex crossover platforms, 70T trucks with 33” wheels and rotating “Hyatt” roller bearing caps.  This is a sharp model.

Please keep in mind that these were pooled boxcars which means you might consider buying cars in a variety of road names.  For example: prototype photos show a SBD car in Flat Rock, MI, a DT&I car in Dallas, TX, a MP car in Toledo, OH and an MKT car in Sharonville, OH.  These cars certainly got around!